Michael Ward (scholar)


Michael Ward is a British scholar, best known for his book Planet Narnia, in which he argues that The Chronicles of Narnia is structured around the seven heavens.
Ward was born in Cuckfield, and studied at Regent's Park College, Oxford, Peterhouse, Cambridge, Ridley Hall, Cambridge, and the University of St Andrews. He was ordained a priest in the Church of England in 2005, joined the Roman Catholic Church in 2012, and he was ordained a priest within the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham in June 2018. Ward is currently Senior Research Fellow at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford, and Professor of Apologetics at Houston Baptist University.
Ward has been an extra in a number of films, including Shadowlands, Hamlet, and The World Is Not Enough.

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